Barkley, speaking on the Waddle and Silvy's radio show in Chicago, took a shot at Norman and had some interesting advice for Woods.

"I would like for him to just blast Greg Norman ... That situation gave everybody a chance to dump on you, and (Tiger) still tried to take the high road. I'm not a high road guy. I want him to come out and really blast Greg Norman .. .I wish he would just go ballistic on Greg ... I wish I could put some of my blackness in him ... like toughness ... (I've been) arrested eight times for fighting ... just because I'm Charles Barkley, you can't disrespect me ... you just can't say anything to me anytime you want to"

Oops, Chuck did it again. He dropped another alarming quote. This one questioned Tiger's toughness in a bizarre fashion, and he found a way to mention his eight arrests. Not sure "blackness" and "toughness" mean the same thing, but no one can fully understand the TNT analyst's language.

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Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.

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